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#632 "Good" vs "Bad" Perfectionism - Katherine Morgan Schafler

Mental Illness Happy Hour

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Is Your Perfectionism Showing Up in a Dysfunctional Way?

"Perfectionism is a wonderful part of you," she says. "It's great to have high ideals and to be detail oriented" But if we're missing dinners because we're spell checking for the ninth time, that's not a good expression of perfectionism,. So in your book, how do you lay out what is healthy perfectionism? She asks yourself two main questions when determining whether your perfectionism is showing up in a healthy way or in a dysfunctional way.

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